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From: sam@delftcc.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news.b
Subject: readnews (2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85) bug + workaround
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 21:48:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 21:48:33 1985
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I recently rmgroup'd locally a bunch of obsolete newsgroups and added a
bunch of new ones to "active".  After this, readnews dumped core.  This
is on a Codata 68000 machine, which will dump core for indirection of
NULL, and that's just what the bug turned out to be.  The indicated
subexpression was NULL:

rfuncs.c, line 569:
		if (lentab[i] == len && strncmp(name, rcline[i], len) == 0)
						      ^^^^^^^^^

I don't have a fix, but after I deleted references to the obsolete
newsgroups in my .newsrc, readnews ran fine.

inews is 2.10.2 but readnews is 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85 on this
system.

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